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Given A Chance Quotes

... then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long time. It was as if they were dancing. There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance.
- Melina Marchetta

...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.
- Ishmael Beah

there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.
- Raymond Carver

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
- Bette Davis

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
- John Ensign

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.
- Eva Figes

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.
- Marlee Matlin

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.
- Brad Pitt

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
- Jean Rostand

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
- Robert H Schuller

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
- Donald Sutherland

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
- Tiger Woods

You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.
- Bill Wyman

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